Be Here Now 1931- BabaRam Dass recounts having enjoyed a great number of secret relationships, some only brief encounters, during the time when his homosexuality had to be hidden

Often denotes the Hidden Wife. However
she may be supportive and helpful in private matters.

the first wife of POTUS-13 Slave Trade Compromise 1800-1874Millard Fillmore was said to be
a frail and sickly woman whose energy dwindled as
her husband's career ascended. Abigail Powers'
personality nevertheless contained a certain forward
drive indicated by Fillmore's
Zukra-yuti-Mangala that energized her husband's identity. Due to his
lagnesha Kuja-8-Vrischika,
Fillmore derived
strength and purpose from the marriage. Abigail was too
sick to perform politically essential social duties
during her husband's presidential term. She
retreated into a second-floor suite of rooms in the
Whitehouse and died shortly after his term was
finished.

The second wife and third wife of
General Electric CEO 1935-Jack Welch
* nichha-Zukra-8 parivartamsha
Budha-9 were high visibility public figures who accompanied Welch to
social events and posed for magazine covers. However wife-1, his
lifepartner for decades and mother of his four children, was a
mysterious person, unknown to most of Welch's peers.

Edith the beloved wife of Lord of the Rings 1892-1973 linguistJ.R.R. Tolkien wanted a hidden, camouflaged (8) identity, or at least she did not wish to be known within her husband's literary circles. She was concerned mainly with social status * Makara * and public respect. She wished to conduct her family life behind a veil of nondisclosure. Tolkien's socializing with fellow writers and thinkers, and interviews for publications, therefore occurred mainly in pubs and parks.

in environments designed for mining, diving, drilling, penetration, pursuit of hidden resources

under mysterious, unexpected or surprise circumstances with no warning . Often one is preoccupied with some self-identified task which is the presumed purpose of the event wherein the meeting occurs, so that there is a bit of a psychological shock (8) as the partner seems
to come out of nowhere and the partner does not seem related to one's present identity.

Zukra-8 may meets the partner in a secretive fashion or a cloudy, darkened environment, perhaps during a catastrophe or crisis in one of their lives. Commonly the catastrophe is related to the death (2) of an alliance contract (7).

In the modern world, the couple often meet in the throes of post-divorce rebirth of identity (8) . Zukra invests qualities of pleasure and wealth into that forward surge and urge toward identity reconstruction (8).

Importantly, the back-story of recovery from a breakup is veiled from the public (8) but the confidential history of a previous relationship is generally a component of the environment of the marriage.

The new mate is apprehended as the key to a new life and lifestyle often significantly more luxurious than the former lifestyle.

Hidden relationships

Microsoft 1955- philanthropistBill Gates met his wife
Melinda French at a dinner
party (Zukra) with entertainment
(Surya) related to his corporation (Shani).
His Zukra-Thula balanced relationships + Shani-Thula
social justice + corporation + Surya romance + confidence. They
maintained a hidden office-romance relationship for several
years before marriage (Shani caution, delay).Then mixed social
justice work, elite corporate work, and management of vastassets
(8).

Extramarital Affairs

Zukra-8
has a certain preference to conduct relationships incognito, which can lead to a taste for
masked, undisclosed, cloudy, camouflaged environments and extramarital affairs.

However there is no inherent prediction for illicit conduct unless
Risk-loving Rahu or Penetrating Mangala are involved in matters of randhrabhava.

Be Here Now 1931- BabaRam Dass practiced a promiscuous clandestine homosexual lifestyle for decades. As the practice was becoming less taboo, he "came out" (8) with a new (to his followers) gay-relationship identity threatened by the prospect of public condemnation. However, his reputation stayed respectable and his status as a teacher was undiminished. Zukra Vriddhipathi-11 in 10th-from-11th = the sahangha (11) respects (10th) one's occult identity (8)

Predictions for outcome of
Randhrabhava-8 should be confirmed via
the revolutionary, emotionally turbulent, perpetually transformative,
trauma-inducing
8th-from-Chandra .
and effects of the current Vimshottari Dasha period must be taken into account.

Should conditions support an extra (2) marital (7) affair, there can arise an secrecy-sustaining pattern of both (1) pleasure in maintaining a home for one's children (4th from 5th) and (2) enjoyment from hidden liaisons.

Zukra-8 suggests that while external relations may be deeply sweet and erotic, protecting children is so satisfying (Zukra) that one may maintain a commitment to the marital home which prevents divorce and contraindicates a new marriage.

Terms of contract

Human partnership in general is not a permanent component of the identity unless Zukra = lagnesha.

The marriage contract may mimic the conditions of death, so that Zukra-8 experiences the terms of the life contract as an act of surrender - often involuntary - to forces greater than oneself.

Pleasure from:

pleasure (Zukra) in acquisition of financial wealth from making contracts and alliances or via re-balancing interior health conditions (2nd from 7th = 7th from 2nd, especially good for legal and medical profession)

pleasure (Zukra) in providing communication about conflicts, accusations,
and disputes, especially litigation (3rd from 6th) = negotiating conflicts or diseased states of mind (6) produced during meetings (3) and daily discourse (3) (6th from 3rd, especially good for legal and medical profession especially psychiatry)

pleasure (Zukra) in providing a protective home for children (4th from 5th) and gambling a bit with one's home life 5th (gambling) from 4th (home) -- see children + Affairs du Coeur, above

pleasure (Zukra) private or clandestine religious practices = mysteries, occult, covert motives and hidden energies, death-and-rebirth, 'tantra' (9th from 12th = 12th from 9th). For a male, the wife may be an occultist.

The rashi of bhava-8 will filter the spouse's invasive dynamic. Yet underneath the veneer of marital pleasures, there is an agenda for the lover to penetrate the psyche and control the behavior of the native . (Similar to the way the hunting Shaman is guided to penetrate the life-force psyche of the prey.)

The lover-partner is not always a human person. Sometimes the most intimate companion is a beautiful spirit being.

Zukra-8 may invite camouflaged guiding forces (8) such as spirit-beings to take control (8).

One of the primary social purposes of marriage is to combine the material assets of two families.

When Zukra occupies 8 = in-laws, the spousal family may bring materially valuable assets into the joint assets of marriage.

Further, the spouse is generally quite pleased (Zukra) to make this contribution due to Zukra's agenda forequity. The in-laws will get a fair exchange value for their investment in the native.

The spousal assets are invested in the Zukra-8 native as a device for the spouse's family (8 = 2nd from 7th) to gain leverage (Zukra) in matters represented by Zukra, its rashi, and other conditions of the 8th bhava.

Sen. John McCain's second wife hailed from a very
financially privileged family and that capital-via-marriage significantly bankrolled his many political campaigns.

Zukra-8 indicates that either a considerable inheritance is expected, or the native will marry money

21 Then Yael, Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and
took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him,
and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced
through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep;
so he swooned and died.

Typically, the shell-death occurs in a pleasant place , attended with sense-soothing delights such as refreshing baths and anointment with fragrant oils.

If Zukra's lord is favorable, death occurs in a holy place, supported by harmonious companions and counselors.

Often, the beloved is present at time of death.

instrumental causes of death include wealth and sensual pleasure.

Gustatory Taste, Gifted Luxuries

Selecting a gift for the native with Zukra in 8?

These folks enjoy the pleasures of occult knowledge, discovery of hidden resources, and insight into the traumatic, sudden shocks of life.

If Budha accompanies Zukra-8, there may be an intellectual interest in the conditions of death-and-rebirth.

Accouterments of the mystery-loving life, such as gracious appointments for the emergency-trauma survival kit or other luxurious items of art and music which enhance the refinement of one's understanding of cycles of death and rebirth, will be much appreciated gifts.

Characteristics of the Environment where ones meets the life-partner(s):

while handling hidden, secret, or confidential matters

emergencies and disasters

diving, mining

discovery of hidden resources

healing environments, surgery

gender reassignment

identity transformation

sudden, forced changes

self-destruction + re-birth

making a home for children (4th from 5th)

Bhava-8 = a natural sthana of Mangala = an agent of mystery, discovery, sexual-pursuit, invasion, and psychic or physical penetration.

8 =12th from 9th = religion. The union may have all good qualities and yet orthodox religious (9) sanctification does not occur. There may be no public marriage ceremony.

Both genders are attracted (Zukra) to women (Zukra) who are secretive by nature, handlers of hidden information, or who work with dangerous, emergency situations.

Not always karaka for infidelity but even if one is faithful to one's own spouse, one will enjoy hearing the details of others' hidden love affairs and one will become a repository for secret materials and information,
* especially hidden wealth.

One may indeed choose a marriage-partner of any gender who has been previously married or involved in previous alliance, or is indeed currently involved in hidden alliances

In a feminine nativity

Zukra-8 typically has
few female companions but those who exist may be tantriki = trauma healers of a darkly attractive appearance or penetrating psychological quality.

The woman herself is a healer, and she be gifted in the practice of midwifery, surgery, alchemy, or the various arts of identity transformation.
Her sexual energy has penetrating, uncovering, unveiling qualities of the shamanic huntress. Pleasure from mysteries, secrets, emergencies
(8), shocking or sudden disclosure, and hidden indulgence (Zukra).

Excellent position for female healers and healers of females, such as midwives, cosmetic surgeons,
managers of the financial estates of the dead, psychiatrists, and occult practitioners.

In any rashi,
Zukra-8 is somewhat self-destructive . Conscious rebirth is an excellent option.
Distinctive sweet tendency toward incognito liaison; or if an artist, a secret artistic
pursuit or undisclosed musical gifts.

In a masculine nativity :

For a male, Zukra = kalatrakaraka = significator of the wife.

The wife or lover is often hidden from public view. Due to 8th = draining 12th from 9th (public ritual) a male may take a female life-partner without the public vow of marriage = especially likely if Zukra suffers moudhya-dosha. or, one may prefer to conduct love affairs behind a veil of obscurity.

masculine nativity is attracted to women whose influence generates conditions of profound life change. The woman may have hidden assets and she is willing to keep the relationship secret , at least for a while.

Zukra in rashi of Mangala = wife is an agent of (forced) rejuvenation.

In any rashi, the wife is somewhat self-destructive .

At the higher levels of consciousness, ego-membrane self-destruction when intentional can prepare the fertile fields of awareness for rebirth; such purposeful destruction creates an opportunity to replace old sensuality with new values.

In lesser consciousness, the wife's tendency toward self-annihilation is pronounced, and there are typically several iterations of the marriage contract = multiple liaisons.